Integrations · Accounting

ControlBoard and QuickBooks Online

ControlBoard® reads your customers, sub-customers and projects, employees and vendors from QuickBooks Online, so the schedule starts from the same jobs and people your books already hold. QuickBooks stays the system of record for customers, payroll and billing. The connection starts read-only and shows you every match before anything is created. When you are ready, ControlBoard support turns on sending, and approved hours go back to QuickBooks as time activities by person and job, with no retyping.

What flows where

Your system keeps the money. ControlBoard runs the work.

Every six hours and whenever an administrator asks; QuickBooks change notices can bring a change in sooner. Hours go back when a pay week’s batch is sent.

QuickBooks Online

Customers, employees, vendors, payroll items, pay rates, invoices and the ledger. Cost codes and pay types stay in the payroll file.

Into ControlBoard
  • Customers as customers
  • Sub-customers and projects as jobs
  • Employees as people
  • Vendors as subcontractors
  • Project status and dates, where the file has them
Back to QuickBooks Online
  • Approved hours as time activities, by person and job

ControlBoard®

Schedules the labor and equipment, tells the field, collects the hours and keeps job cost and the forecast live.

Getting connected

  1. Sign in to QuickBooks and approve the link.

  2. Choose whether every sub-customer is a job, or only projects.

  3. Review the first match: records with the same number or name are linked, the rest wait for you.

  4. When you are ready, ControlBoard support turns on sending approved hours.

QuickBooks keeps the books; ControlBoard keeps the schedule, the field and the week’s time in step with them. A sub-customer or project becomes a job the schedule can use the same day it is read. People come in ready for time, with a default employee type and cost code, so the first week’s hours need nothing extra picked.

Each read is listed in the connection’s history with what it created, updated or left out.

Updated

Common questions

Does ControlBoard work with QuickBooks Projects?
Yes. Your company chooses whether every sub-customer counts as a job or only the ones that are projects. Where the file has them, project status and dates come in too.
Will a sync create duplicates of people we already have?
No. A record is matched by its number first, then by an exact name, and a record here is never linked twice. Anything without a match waits for you to link, create or leave out.
Does ControlBoard run payroll in QuickBooks?
No. It sends approved hours as time activities. Paychecks, pay rates and payroll items stay in QuickBooks.

See ControlBoard® on your own jobs

A 20-minute call, then a demo built on your jobs, people and equipment. Your accounting system stays where it is.